If someone like Stephen Fry is fed up with the social justice warriors ruining Twitter with their rabid offence taking, then that's got to be a major sign that Twitter is on the decline. If Jack Dorsey continues to capitulate to the feminazis then Twitter will end up like MySpace. It's already heading in that direction.
No, he described what's actually going on. For decades now we've had computer models thrust into our faces ad nauseam, and yet when they are proven wrong years later, nobody wants to talk about it. They just fiddle with the figures and churn out a new (equally worthless) "model" and dial up the hysteria.
We've had a long record of alarmist rubbish now to show that more "climate science" is just a waste of OUR money. No thanks.
Agreed. The setup was most definitely not a walk in the park (had to change various permissions on things and couldn't even adjust the volume by default), but after the initial day's tinkering, it's rock solid, and won't suffer the gradual rot that Windows gets.
I had to install some Shark codecs or whatever they're called just to play MKV files on Windows and it was very buggy. If you've got the time initially, the long-term investment well and truly pays off. There are various themes but I still find the default Mythbuntu theme the best (once you go and disable fanart backgrounds, which are just distracting).
I don't know why I got rid of Mythbuntu the last time a few years ago (installing Win 7). Windows became such a dog lately that it was easier to put ol' faithful back on the box instead. Mythbuntu is so snappy and responsive; no CPU spikes slowing down playback, and it does what you want at the time you press a button (there's a novel concept, Microsoft!). I can see why Microsoft ditched Windows Media Centre in 10 because they've proven that it's just too hard for them to get it right. My household is now completely Microsoft-free (with my main computer being a Macbook Pro:-)
Facebook already has shown it can't be trusted with free speech (which is why I refuse to have a Facebook account). If Twitter follows suit then I'm gone (as will be my eyeballs seeing its ads, which I see more regularly now, by the way!).
Given that it took 15 years to complete the last release, and assuming the same for all the others (unless they do a Firefox and issue a new version every month), then we could expect Perl 200 in the year 4926, and by then our new alien overlords will have mandated the use of something else, I expect (if humans haven't been turned into slaves or food, of course).
I remember when I used to use Linux: Ubuntu 10.04 with good ol' GNOME 2.32 or whatever it was. Then Shuttleworth had the great idea to throw it all out and bring in the professional designers. I'm now a Mac user, which may seem ironic because Apple has plenty of professional designers, but the ones Shuttleworth hired must have been complete UI Nazis because what they came up with was an abomination. I don't know whether Linux can afford or attract decent designers; the only ones they seem to find are people with some very strange ideas, and who don't actually use computers.
That's the way any sensible false prophet works: predict things so far into the future that you won't be around if they turn out to be false. Global warming is a non-problem, but this so-called "deal" to respond to it is laughable. I guess they get to have their fig leaves and the world can hopefully move on from this silliness and start worrying about real issues, like addressing poverty, education, Islamism, free trade, etc.
I have no idea what the difference between a char* and a char** has to do with this discussion. In any case, none of the languages I use have pointers like that, so I'm saved from all that nonsense:-)
I agree. There are so many methodologies out there. I discovered a new one the other day: "kanban". If I were to sum it up myself it would amount to not throwing the baby out with the bathwater and keeping what's good when you go to redevelop a system (at least, that's the impression I got; I'm not wasting valuable hours really delving into yet another methodology).
I had a boss once whom a former colleague told me once had instructed him to "stop planning and start doing". This was because he had put in a week or two writing a Word document explaining the system and not actually writing it. We're not talking about a massive system either, just an in-house web page in ASP to handle something simple. At the time, we laughed and thought the boss was a loon, but almost 20 years later I've come to agree with him. You can actually over-plan something, and by the time you've developed it and the users have made you change it, the plan is no good.
I guess the methodology fanbois would say "agile" is the way to go, and something like it would probably be right. I'm guess I'm an agile developer these days but I don't know a thing about what the methodology actually says. I just get stuck in and "do", and occasionally, if a system is big enough and I'm wary of the users changing their minds all the time, I'll commit the important bits to paper and get them to sign off. Other times, when I know exactly what's needed and we're all on the same page, and the clients don't have that look in their eyes that says they'll be changing their minds a lot, I'll just get stuck in and write the thing without a full-on design beforehand. I find that most designs/plans/whatever are useless by the time the project's over anyway.
The best methodology is a good separation of concerns with plenty of comments. The rest is just all flash and no meaning.
A massive pile of cash, there's where Apple is now thanks to their design philosophy. Mind you, there are nascent indications that this is getting out of control with yet another war on features under way, but Apple is still the king of mobile profits.
A vision impairment is a disability. A minor and common one, but still one. By the way, the common way to correct this disability is with glasses. I have poor vision, but never had an issue with reading Apple fonts because I've corrected my vision by wearing glasses. The author's implication that someone with a disability should be ashamed of themselves could be taken as quite offensive though.
The fonts used by Safari on Mac are far too small, especially the bookmarks bar. They're a tiny grey font on a grey background. I can't read it, yet I have glasses and get by fine with almost everything else in day-to-day life. There's no way to make them bigger, either, and having to turn on accessibility features just to correct this one bad design choice by Apple simply creates more problems.
So I now use Chrome. If Safari didn't treat features and usability like the plague then I might use it.
Amen my brother. I was considering posting a comment to complain about the very thing, but thought, "why bother, nobody gets annoyed by this apart from me". An article should link to ONE other article only. I'm not going to click on every article that a slashdot post talks about. If there's too many I'm likely to consider it click-bait or trolling and just scroll on.
The bookmarks/favourites bar (whatever it's called) uses fonts that are too small to read, AND it won't let me see the sites' favicons beside each item. They might even have ditched the bookmarks bar in the latest versions because (last time I bothered to open Safari) I didn't see anything resembling bookmarks until I clicked into the address bar. This is anti-usability. I want a bookmarks bar visible at all times. I DO NOT WANT an extra click between me and tasks I perform regularly (click clicking on favourite sites). And I want things in a font large enough for me to read (and that's not medium grey on a light grey background - contrast actually matters, too!)
Sorry, Apple, but Chome is my default browser on my Mac at home because your browser cares more about visual aesthetics than actual usability.
Cherry picking is exactly what the IPCC. Mediaeval warming period? Smudge that from the record to generate a nice hockey-stick style graph. Ah, that's better. The sky is falling! Pay us more money to produce more of this worthless crap. The only cherry picking going on is by governments, scientists, and green groups who can't bring themselves to review their own work and wonder why their worthless models turned out to be so worthless.
Indeed you are right. Physics apparently doesn't care for the innermost yearnings of tortured climate models. No amount of dodgy work on behalf of "scientists" is going to force up those darn temperatures!! Ice isn't melting; snow hasn't becoming a thing of the past; cyclones/tornadoes have NOT increased in frequency (in fact, there's a bit of a lull going on in recent memory). No, your precious CO2 just isn't turning out to be the bogeyman that Al Gore and friends want it to be.
Today's temperature range is not exactly "uncharted territory". We have plenty of charts to say that the warming (such as it is/was) has been on hold for 18 years and 8 months so far: http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...
I'm an out and proud denier. There is nothing to believe in but the scaremongering of scientists who are addicted to an all-you-can-eat buffet of tax-payer funded studies to prove something that just isn't cooperating with their worthless computer models.
I wonder what the left will move onto next when the penny finally drops and they realise that their climate change emperor has no clothes and nobody believes them any more?
One could argue that Gene Roddenberry was one of the original SJWs, but he's a lightweight compared to the abominations ruining western civilisation today.
Sadly, you are right. I haven't even seen all of the new "Star Trek" movies that came out after the last one with the TNG crew. I saw the first one and the lens flares were so distracting that I haven't bothered to watch any others that might have been released. Explosions do not make up for actual plot lines. I don't even know if there were others because I'm just not into JJ Trek. I'm sure JJ Wars will be crap, too.
Enterprise was insufferable! Despite some of the posts above, Voyager was OK. TNG and DS9 are obviously far superior, but Voyager is nowhere near as bad as Enterprise, which I don't even acknowledge it as Star Trek - it's that bad.
I'll know that this new series is going to be a dud if there's an alien race where one of their gender has to cover their faces and they have a holy book that leads some of them to terrorism and everybody tries to understand their point of view.
Mark Steyn has written an excellent book on that predicted 45-degree slope, it's called "A Disgrace to the Profession". The disgrace he refers to, of course, is Michael Mann's so-called "hockey stick" graph, the one Al Gore relied upon so much in his "Inconvenient Truth" beat up of a non-problem.
Climate models are a dime a thousand and most have turned out to be rubbish. None of them predicted a 19+ year pause in the warming "trend" (which was coaxed out of adjusting historical temperatures to get the "right" result, by the way). James Delingpole demonstrates clearly why many non-scientists have stopped listening to the prophets of climate doom: their nay-saying has been around long enough for us to learn that after two decades of telling us the sky will fall - when it hasn't - they're just rent seekers dancing to the tune of government grant money. Pure and simple. We need to get beyond this sad state of affairs and redirect this wasted money to actual progress.
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If someone like Stephen Fry is fed up with the social justice warriors ruining Twitter with their rabid offence taking, then that's got to be a major sign that Twitter is on the decline. If Jack Dorsey continues to capitulate to the feminazis then Twitter will end up like MySpace. It's already heading in that direction.
No, he described what's actually going on. For decades now we've had computer models thrust into our faces ad nauseam, and yet when they are proven wrong years later, nobody wants to talk about it. They just fiddle with the figures and churn out a new (equally worthless) "model" and dial up the hysteria.
We've had a long record of alarmist rubbish now to show that more "climate science" is just a waste of OUR money. No thanks.
Enough said.
Agreed. The setup was most definitely not a walk in the park (had to change various permissions on things and couldn't even adjust the volume by default), but after the initial day's tinkering, it's rock solid, and won't suffer the gradual rot that Windows gets.
I had to install some Shark codecs or whatever they're called just to play MKV files on Windows and it was very buggy. If you've got the time initially, the long-term investment well and truly pays off. There are various themes but I still find the default Mythbuntu theme the best (once you go and disable fanart backgrounds, which are just distracting).
I don't know why I got rid of Mythbuntu the last time a few years ago (installing Win 7). Windows became such a dog lately that it was easier to put ol' faithful back on the box instead. Mythbuntu is so snappy and responsive; no CPU spikes slowing down playback, and it does what you want at the time you press a button (there's a novel concept, Microsoft!). I can see why Microsoft ditched Windows Media Centre in 10 because they've proven that it's just too hard for them to get it right. My household is now completely Microsoft-free (with my main computer being a Macbook Pro :-)
Facebook already has shown it can't be trusted with free speech (which is why I refuse to have a Facebook account). If Twitter follows suit then I'm gone (as will be my eyeballs seeing its ads, which I see more regularly now, by the way!).
Given that it took 15 years to complete the last release, and assuming the same for all the others (unless they do a Firefox and issue a new version every month), then we could expect Perl 200 in the year 4926, and by then our new alien overlords will have mandated the use of something else, I expect (if humans haven't been turned into slaves or food, of course).
Yawn. The world has moved on. I used Perl 15 years ago but Perl 6 has taken far too long. Why should I use it now over anything else?
I remember when I used to use Linux: Ubuntu 10.04 with good ol' GNOME 2.32 or whatever it was. Then Shuttleworth had the great idea to throw it all out and bring in the professional designers. I'm now a Mac user, which may seem ironic because Apple has plenty of professional designers, but the ones Shuttleworth hired must have been complete UI Nazis because what they came up with was an abomination. I don't know whether Linux can afford or attract decent designers; the only ones they seem to find are people with some very strange ideas, and who don't actually use computers.
That's the way any sensible false prophet works: predict things so far into the future that you won't be around if they turn out to be false. Global warming is a non-problem, but this so-called "deal" to respond to it is laughable. I guess they get to have their fig leaves and the world can hopefully move on from this silliness and start worrying about real issues, like addressing poverty, education, Islamism, free trade, etc.
I have no idea what the difference between a char* and a char** has to do with this discussion. In any case, none of the languages I use have pointers like that, so I'm saved from all that nonsense :-)
I agree. There are so many methodologies out there. I discovered a new one the other day: "kanban". If I were to sum it up myself it would amount to not throwing the baby out with the bathwater and keeping what's good when you go to redevelop a system (at least, that's the impression I got; I'm not wasting valuable hours really delving into yet another methodology).
I had a boss once whom a former colleague told me once had instructed him to "stop planning and start doing". This was because he had put in a week or two writing a Word document explaining the system and not actually writing it. We're not talking about a massive system either, just an in-house web page in ASP to handle something simple. At the time, we laughed and thought the boss was a loon, but almost 20 years later I've come to agree with him. You can actually over-plan something, and by the time you've developed it and the users have made you change it, the plan is no good.
I guess the methodology fanbois would say "agile" is the way to go, and something like it would probably be right. I'm guess I'm an agile developer these days but I don't know a thing about what the methodology actually says. I just get stuck in and "do", and occasionally, if a system is big enough and I'm wary of the users changing their minds all the time, I'll commit the important bits to paper and get them to sign off. Other times, when I know exactly what's needed and we're all on the same page, and the clients don't have that look in their eyes that says they'll be changing their minds a lot, I'll just get stuck in and write the thing without a full-on design beforehand. I find that most designs/plans/whatever are useless by the time the project's over anyway.
The best methodology is a good separation of concerns with plenty of comments. The rest is just all flash and no meaning.
A massive pile of cash, there's where Apple is now thanks to their design philosophy. Mind you, there are nascent indications that this is getting out of control with yet another war on features under way, but Apple is still the king of mobile profits.
A vision impairment is a disability. A minor and common one, but still one. By the way, the common way to correct this disability is with glasses. I have poor vision, but never had an issue with reading Apple fonts because I've corrected my vision by wearing glasses. The author's implication that someone with a disability should be ashamed of themselves could be taken as quite offensive though.
The fonts used by Safari on Mac are far too small, especially the bookmarks bar. They're a tiny grey font on a grey background. I can't read it, yet I have glasses and get by fine with almost everything else in day-to-day life. There's no way to make them bigger, either, and having to turn on accessibility features just to correct this one bad design choice by Apple simply creates more problems.
So I now use Chrome. If Safari didn't treat features and usability like the plague then I might use it.
Amen my brother. I was considering posting a comment to complain about the very thing, but thought, "why bother, nobody gets annoyed by this apart from me". An article should link to ONE other article only. I'm not going to click on every article that a slashdot post talks about. If there's too many I'm likely to consider it click-bait or trolling and just scroll on.
The bookmarks/favourites bar (whatever it's called) uses fonts that are too small to read, AND it won't let me see the sites' favicons beside each item. They might even have ditched the bookmarks bar in the latest versions because (last time I bothered to open Safari) I didn't see anything resembling bookmarks until I clicked into the address bar. This is anti-usability. I want a bookmarks bar visible at all times. I DO NOT WANT an extra click between me and tasks I perform regularly (click clicking on favourite sites). And I want things in a font large enough for me to read (and that's not medium grey on a light grey background - contrast actually matters, too!)
Sorry, Apple, but Chome is my default browser on my Mac at home because your browser cares more about visual aesthetics than actual usability.
Cherry picking is exactly what the IPCC. Mediaeval warming period? Smudge that from the record to generate a nice hockey-stick style graph. Ah, that's better. The sky is falling! Pay us more money to produce more of this worthless crap. The only cherry picking going on is by governments, scientists, and green groups who can't bring themselves to review their own work and wonder why their worthless models turned out to be so worthless.
Indeed you are right. Physics apparently doesn't care for the innermost yearnings of tortured climate models. No amount of dodgy work on behalf of "scientists" is going to force up those darn temperatures!! Ice isn't melting; snow hasn't becoming a thing of the past; cyclones/tornadoes have NOT increased in frequency (in fact, there's a bit of a lull going on in recent memory). No, your precious CO2 just isn't turning out to be the bogeyman that Al Gore and friends want it to be.
Today's temperature range is not exactly "uncharted territory". We have plenty of charts to say that the warming (such as it is/was) has been on hold for 18 years and 8 months so far: http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...
I'm an out and proud denier. There is nothing to believe in but the scaremongering of scientists who are addicted to an all-you-can-eat buffet of tax-payer funded studies to prove something that just isn't cooperating with their worthless computer models.
I wonder what the left will move onto next when the penny finally drops and they realise that their climate change emperor has no clothes and nobody believes them any more?
One could argue that Gene Roddenberry was one of the original SJWs, but he's a lightweight compared to the abominations ruining western civilisation today.
Sadly, you are right. I haven't even seen all of the new "Star Trek" movies that came out after the last one with the TNG crew. I saw the first one and the lens flares were so distracting that I haven't bothered to watch any others that might have been released. Explosions do not make up for actual plot lines. I don't even know if there were others because I'm just not into JJ Trek. I'm sure JJ Wars will be crap, too.
SJWs must have been behind Enterprise. I'm sure this new one will be just as bad, alas.
Enterprise was insufferable! Despite some of the posts above, Voyager was OK. TNG and DS9 are obviously far superior, but Voyager is nowhere near as bad as Enterprise, which I don't even acknowledge it as Star Trek - it's that bad.
I'll know that this new series is going to be a dud if there's an alien race where one of their gender has to cover their faces and they have a holy book that leads some of them to terrorism and everybody tries to understand their point of view.
Mark Steyn has written an excellent book on that predicted 45-degree slope, it's called "A Disgrace to the Profession". The disgrace he refers to, of course, is Michael Mann's so-called "hockey stick" graph, the one Al Gore relied upon so much in his "Inconvenient Truth" beat up of a non-problem.
Climate models are a dime a thousand and most have turned out to be rubbish. None of them predicted a 19+ year pause in the warming "trend" (which was coaxed out of adjusting historical temperatures to get the "right" result, by the way). James Delingpole demonstrates clearly why many non-scientists have stopped listening to the prophets of climate doom: their nay-saying has been around long enough for us to learn that after two decades of telling us the sky will fall - when it hasn't - they're just rent seekers dancing to the tune of government grant money. Pure and simple. We need to get beyond this sad state of affairs and redirect this wasted money to actual progress.